http://www.artsandopinion.com/2022_v21_n3/podcasts/jason-gravenor-3.mp3Jason Mcdonald thrashes it out with me in this barnburner where we tackle lots of recent Quebec politics and the upcoming election, including the guy who got tossed in jail for posting a meme critical of a CAQ provincial representive. Click the link
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A pair of English Montreal brothers died inexplicable and violent deaths over a six-month span starting just before Christmas 1976.
The duo of deathly disaster triggered head scratching that leaves scalps torn and fingernails worn to this day.
(The following contains no photographs of the principal characters, brothers Richard/Stuart and Robert Scully. Prepare for the subtle disappointment of being deprived of visual stimulation.)
The Scully clan launched William Scully Ltd, the family firm, in 1877. They moved it to Montreal from Toronto in the early 20th century. They became noted Montreal entrepreneurs and world warriors, with the family making a name in the metal plating business.
Richard Scully was born in 1944 and was routinely known as Stuart. By 1976 he was aged 32 and had a PhD from the Sorbonne.
Richard/Stuart, had a son, Will (born around 1974, still alive) with wife Martha Baskett (1948-2020) who taught at Westmount High School. Richard/Stuart had a pair of brothers, John and ...
Urban hounds in bondage
by KRISTIAN GRAVENOR
Published in the Montreal Mirror Sept. 11, 2000
In the dog-friendly confines of elegant Percy Walters Park, bitches and studs frolic freely, as they scratch themselves, establish territory and check out potential mates. Meanwhile their dogs do largely the same things.
For decades, dog lovers have convened on this picturesque, sloping Penfield Avenue field tucked inside the low redbrick walls that once fenced off a millionaire’s estate. Unlike my part of NDG where snarling, predatory hounds devour 10 pounds of raw beef and get their teeth sharpened daily, this seems a laid-back, successfully self-governing community of dog fanciers.
So naturally somebody had to try to put an end to it. That somebody was an unnamed middle-aged woman – rumoured to inhabit a condo behind the Trudeau mansion - who has slapped the city with a cease and desist order to force dogs to wear leashes. The complainant accurately points out that Percy Walters Park was ...
